Saving The Sweetest Watermelon The South Has Ever Known

NPR ^ | 19 May 2015 | Jill Neimark

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"My personal favorites, homegrown here, are black diamond, and the yellow-fleshed black diamond; I’ve always found the yellow-flesh watermelons to be much better tasting in general."

My dad grew a Black Diamond once that was so big that 'area powers' packed it up and shipped it to president Truman.

As a young boy, I sat on the side of the road and sold watermellons for ten cents each, mostly Black Diamond back then.

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Extinct tree grows anew from ancient jar of seeds unearthed by archaeologists

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Scientists Regrow 30,000-Year-Old Plant

[1010RD]

FReepmail me after your season with the results. If good, I’ll take 24 seeds for $5.

[Michigan Bowhunter]

OK.....12 seeds....$10. right now, I have 3 viable plants coming up in hills. time to fertilize

[Texas Fossil]

My father has told me about a melon that his grandfather grew that was incredible. I think he said his grandfather ordered the seed from Kentucky. It had a very thin light green stripped skin, white flesh, and black seed. It was an oval melon not one of the round varieties, but it was a pretty small size.

I’ve looked for something similar, but have never found anything close.

There is something to be said for tradition.